[user104658]

I'd also throw out there that even if they had an overwhelming majority of the vote - say 70% - that still wouldn't mean that the people who are against it don't have a "valid case". Popular does not mean "right", and there have been some pretty horrendous regimes throughout history that have had a large amount of public support with only pockets of resistance. Would you say that those people in those pockets of resistance have never had "a valid case"?